here we go good evening, once again i m stephanie ruhle in new yor city we are following several important stories tonight. in nashville, tennessee, thousands of protesters marche in the state capital today demanding that lawmakers d something to adjust gu violence after last week s deadly school shooting we are also following recovery efforts after devastatin tornadoes in the south and midwest left at least 25 peopl dead while and was conson, all eyes are on tomorrow s extremel important election for the states supreme court the outcome could have hug impacts on issues like abortio access in the state. and in florida, the democratic leader of the state senate and several others were arrested after protesting the senate passage of a six-week abortion ban. but we begin this evening with important developments here in new york city on the forme presidents indictment. donald j trump is now just hours from surrendering to authorities. he s of course the first forme or sitt
tonight on the reidout i was asked by the u.s. attorney s office in the southern district to stand down on our investigation, which had commenced involving the trump organization and i was somewhat surprised after mr. cohen pleaded guilty that the federal government did not proceed on the areas in which it asked me to stand down. former manhattan d.a. cy vance revealed why it has taken so long to get to this point just hours from the fingerprinting of the first criminally indicted former president. and as we have been seeing all day, trump s strategy is to turn this humiliating event in his life into a media spectacle. omarosa, who knows a thing or two about trump and spectacle, joins me tonight to discuss. and that is where we begin tonight, on the eve of a legal reckoning for donald trump in new york city. trump made an ignominious return to his former hometown today ahead of his history making day in court tomorrow. as the first american president ever charged
davis, michael cohen s attorney, we will speak to in just a few moments, confirmed to axio that his client provided manhattan prosecutors with documentation about a trum hush money payments made to second woman who claims to hav had a affair with them that suggests the case b district attorney alvin brag could actually be broader than the stormy daniels payment also breaking pressed about why trump was in not charged earlier, he told msnbc today that he was aske to stand down by his the bosses we are looking at these so-called hush money payment and then we learned from the southern district of new yor that they asked us to stan down and i stand down i mean they were communicating that they had this ongoing investigation in the west that we put ou efforts on hold while they completed their investigation. and i felt that it was appropriate for me to press th pause button so for the course of more than a year and a half now, that is what we did. i was surprised, after micha
rebuilding an empire will never be able to ease the people s love of liberty. brutality will never grind down the will of the free. and ukraine, ukraine will never be a victim of russia. never. president biden gets a raucous welcome in poland, vowing that a united nato will never ban ukraine, while vladimir putin tries to justify his disastrous war to his people. meanwhile, the caucus in the house would like to see ukraine lose. one tweeting, ukraine is not our friend and russia is not our enemy. plus, the forewoman says the georgia special grand jury looking into trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election recommended multiple indictments and that list is not short. good evening. i m jason johnson in for joy reid. we re just days away from the one-year anniversary of russia s invasion of a sovereign country, ukraine. today, president biden standing in front of the royal castle, a historical landmark in warsaw that was rebuilt after another invading force, the nazis, destr
trump s former lawyer, who i already served time for hi role in the scheme, had this t say. he s furious right now. because donald is not somebody who likes to tak accountability and alvin bragg dropped 2000-pound and vilify coun ability right on to his lap. so, it s the first time in his life that he s going to be hel accountable for his own dirt deeds. despite trump facin criminal charges, he s movin forward with his 2024 righ house run. the trump campaign s eve raising money off this cas claiming it raised more than $ million from his supporters in the first 24 hours after the news of the indictment becam public. and trump s republican allies in washington and his supporters, they are standin by their man it is no surprise that they ar already attacking this investigation as a political hit job. without pointing to actual evidence of wrongdoin by prosecutors. during trump s official 2024 campaign rally last month, supporters hel campaign signs with the word witch hunt.